Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue “As soon as I was visibly and clearly pregnant, I felt, for the first time in my adolescent and adult life, not-guilty.” – Adrienne Rich This is a good Midwestern neighborhood, our realtor tells us when we...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue I have never been asked, but I know people wonder if all adopted children have a fear of abandonment, if we are all just longing to be loved wherever we can find it. The thing is that I know that I am...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Almost every woman I know remotely or intimately has had at least one, if not multiple, abortions. I’m in the “two” category. Damn those diaphragms. The first was November 1984, just eight months after...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue I thought of it as punishment, had I been walking the right path I wouldn’t be in this predicament. I questioned God’s use of me and my body. That was only my second mistake in the story. My first was...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue “I think there’s something wrong with your baby’s brain,” the doctor says, her voice level, but her face as colorless as her starched lab coat. When the radiologist went to get her, Charles and I...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue The night I went into labor, a week early, I drove myself to the hospital, down streets devoid of people, thinking it was a false alarm. My son arrived with two whorls of hair atop his head, like twin...
